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AMERICAblog: US liquor sales not recession proof

  • paulbot5 · 10 months ago
    Well im kinda drunk now, get some stuff called lion stout, its the best
  • RadicalRuss · 10 months ago
    And yet the multi-billion dollar marijuana industry is doing quite well.
  • example · 10 months ago
    People are just buying cheaper stuff. More Less Grey Goose and absolut and more Philips.
  • dogout · 10 months ago
    Our small, rural community has many oldtimer's whose families survived during the Depression making moonshine and shipping it out in the cover of night as a business venture. Marvelously entertaining stories for the past couple decades. Rogues and characters.
    I wish I would have asked for the recipes.......
  • cosanostradamus · 10 months ago
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    The execrable Bud Lite, the most popular brew in Honolulu, is $25-$30/case. Heineken, the #1 import, is $8-$10/six-pack. Good Scotch & Irish whiskeys and cheap Cognac start at $30/750ml. Good Bourbon & sour mash are not much less. European wines start at $20/bottle.

    The Bush tariffs are part of this. The domestic beer prices may be due in part to the diversion of croplands to ethanol production. But that's on Bush and Congress. That and the low dollar.

    You'd think it would be in their interest to keep us drunk. Maybe that's why Bushco lost the election. We were all just too damned sober, and feeling it.
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  • vkobaya · 10 months ago
    This guy is a spokesman for the liquor industry, not at all objective or I would add basically has much to gain by lying. In hard times, I suspect the liquor/booze industry would be the last to suffer economically.

    Expecting honesty of the liquor industry is very similar to relying on the words, research and integrity of the tobacco industry.
  • leo · 10 months ago
    In hard times people naturally shift to cheap booze. It's inevitable.
  • msquick · 10 months ago
    When we both lost jobs, we gave up liquor, buying books, cosmetics, having the dog clipped. These are luxuries, not necessities. We paid for food, utilities, mortgage. I have a new job, finally, paying less but allowing some luxuries. We spent $100 on dinner out last night and the dog will be groomed next week. Liquor store the following pay!
  • Indigo · 10 months ago
    Shopping around can unearth a few price surprises. The range of a price for a quality bourbon can be as much as 20% more at a high-end store in Atlanta than at a retail wholesaler in central Florida. Of course, "real men" don't shop. They'll have to settle for the cheap stuff. Too bad.
  • Forty2 · 10 months ago
    Wine biz is hurting bad. There is a huge glut of juice sitting in warehouses.

    Face it: anything discretionary, unless you are hopelessly addicted to it, is going to suffer.